Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-11-04
CRIME AND CRIMINALS

JAMES DAVIS has been arrested at Chat
tanooga, Tenn, on charge of killing a
man named Stewart, at Florence, Ind, in
1884.
j. o. SANDERS, a Knoxville, ILL.,, promi-
nent business man, was arrested Thurs
day on charge of forgery. He was re-
leased on bail.
NEAR New Burlington, Ind, Perry
Shockley shot and killed his father-in-lsw
James Carey, and then blew out his own
brains. An old grudge.
JOHN l.. REsToN, confidential clerk in
the Lima (Ohio) National Bank, has fled.
He forged checks for various amounts on
the Lima Motor and Street Electric rail
way company.
RUMoRs are current at Sioux City that
Paul Leader, one of the defendants in
the Haddock murder case has fed. His
bond Is $4,000, but his sureties express
no anxiety regarding his absence.
REQUIsITIoN on the Governor of Ill
inois was issued Thursday by Governor
Martin, of Kansas, for the return of Ii.
A. Hammoned, a commission merchant
of Fort Scott, charged with forgery.
JOEL DEITZ, an advertising agent, be-
came suddenly insane at Bay City, Mich.
He shot DR.. Baker twice, fired several
times at officers who attempted to arrest
him, and then sent bullet through his
own heart. The physician is not danger
ously hurt.
LIMA, Q. John Reston, private secre-
tary to B. C. Faurot, of the Lima Nation
al bank, has been arrested for forgery
and has confessed. Out of consideration
for his family, President Faurot will not
prosecute him.
HARRIssBURG, Ky. Richard Paxton, of
the Buckner guards, while on the way to
the armory entered a saloon in which
Henry Passmore, the barkeeper, was alone.
Three shots were heard, and Paxton
emerged and shortly afterward fell dead
DISTRICT ATTORNEY MARITIME, of New
York, is of the opinion that no criminal
proceedings can be commenced against
Russell Sage and Jay Gould through the
grand larceny charge talked of by w. IL.
Delaney, acting for the Kansas Pacific
bondholders.
NJ. Il. ATKINSON was taken to Spring
field, Mo-, Thursday, charged with arson,
| committed three years ago. He admits
his guilt, but alleges his father-in-law,
the Rev. +. S. Wiseman, paid him for
firing the dwelling house, on which an
insurance policy was held.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. Information re-
ceived here that Samuel A. Hopkins, the
absconding clerk of the United States
circuit court, and his deputy, Thompson,
| who forged checks and obtained over
$4,000 from banks here and at Austin,
have been arrested in the interior of Mex
ico by United States officers.
EXCITEMENT prevails at Delphi, Ind,
| over report that Luella Mabbitt, for
whose murder Amer Green was lynched,
has arrived in that town. 1t is certain
| that young woman, heavily veiled, in
quired at the depot Saturday night for a
trunk which she had checked at Fort
! Worth, and then disappeared; and it is
also fact that the trunk reached
Delphi few hours later, and still awaits
| a claimant.
HENRY BENHAYoN committed suicide
| Sunday st San Francisco, leaving letter
| for the Coroner, in which he stated that,
| two years ago, he poisoned his sister, the
| wife of DIR. S. Milton Bowers, to secure
| the insurance on her life. DR.. Bowers
| was tried for the murder, Benhayen be-
| lug the principal witness against him, and
is now in prison under sentence of death.
! Efforts are being made to establish the
| truth of Bsnhayon's confession.